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Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis is the spin-off series created by Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright which follows the adventures of the Atlantis Expedition Team in the Pegasus Galaxy: Dr. Daniel Jackson discovered the destination of the Ancients who lived in the city-ship Atlantis on Earth millions of years ago. Dr. Elizabeth Weir led her expedition through the Stargate and was the leader of the Atlantis Outpost for about three years. Col. Samantha Carter became the new leader of the Atlantis Base following Dr. Weir's capture by the Asurans, the Pegasus Replicators, and served for one year. After the Asuran and Wraith threats were greatly reduced, Carter was recalled to Earth and was replaced by IOA representative Richard Woolsey.

Episode Guides and Transcripts

	Season One - When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients—the originators of the Stargates—Stargate Command launches an investigation. A new team of explorers, headed by civilian Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travels to the distant Pegasus galaxy, where they discover an advanced but deserted city on the ocean floor, a group of nomadic humans...and a deadly enemy that feeds on human fear! Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Two - After narrowly surviving a massive Wraith attack, the new inhabitants of Atlantis continue to uncover the secrets of the Ancients and search for allies in their corner of the universe, but the persistent threat of interference from vicious enemies haunts them in their pursuits. Will they find the elusive power source they so desperately need...or the renegade team member they've lost? Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Three - As a new year in the Pegasus galaxy begins, a fleet of Wraith ships races to attack Earth. Can the team stop them in time, or do the Wraith have a new feeding ground? Will a technologically advanced people prove to be allies with the Atlantis Expedition, or will they be a powerful new threat? Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Four - Colonel Samantha Carter takes charge as the city's new leader, facing new and daunting challenges, including joining forces with the dangerous Wraith in order to fight a common enemy—the unstoppable Pegasus Replicators, the Asurans. Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Five - Richard Woolsey of the International Oversight Advisory (IOA) takes command of the Atlantis Expedition at a time when the Pegasus galaxy seemed at its safest in 10,000 years. But things have a way of changing rather quickly when those thought greatly weakened or long dead return. Episode Guides \| Transcripts

Movies

Atlantis Movies - Although the script for the first SGA movie was written (Stargate: Extinction), MGM discontinued the Stargate franchise before the movie could be produced. The news of the end of the franchise was announced by creator Brad Wright at the Vancouver Stargate Con on April 17, 2011. Script co-writer Joe Mallozzi said, "For what it's worth, it involved a return mission to Pegasus, the tragic end of one relationship, the beginning of another, and a surprising progression in the alliance between one man and one wraith."

Related Characters

Production

Co-Creators/Executive Producers

Writers and Directors

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-[[Category:Episodes]][[Image:stargate-atlantis.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Stargate Atlantis Program Team Leaders]]
+[[Category:Episodes]][[Image:stargate-atlantis.jpg|frame|none|Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy]]
-==Summary==
+==Stargate Atlantis==
-This article covers the episodes of the spin-off ''Stargate Atlantis'' as it crosses stories with ''Stargate SG-1''.
+''Stargate Atlantis'' is the spin-off series created by Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright which follows the adventures of the Atlantis Expedition Team in the Pegasus Galaxy: Dr. Daniel Jackson discovered the destination of the Ancients who lived in the city-ship Atlantis on Earth millions of years ago. Dr. Elizabeth Weir led her expedition through the Stargate and was the leader of the Atlantis Outpost for about three years. Col. Samantha Carter became the new leader of the Atlantis Base following Dr. Weir's capture by the Asurans, the Pegasus Replicators, and served for one year. After the Asuran and Wraith threats were greatly reduced, Carter was recalled to Earth and was replaced by IOA representative Richard Woolsey.
-==Pr&eacute;cis==
+==Episode Guides and Transcripts==
-An elite team of explorers from Earth have embarked on a one-way trip to the Pegasus Galaxy to the legendary Lost City of the Ancients, Atlantis. Their mission is to explore the galaxy and seek contact with advanced alien races, perhaps even the Ancients themselves, and acquire the technology to return home with increased weaponry and knowledge to aid in the defense of Earth.
-==Season One==
-===1.01 "Rising Part 1"===
 {|
-|valign="top"|[[Image:daniel-8th-atlantis.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Daniel discovers the location of Atlantis]]
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-s1.jpg|200px|left|]]
-|valign="top"|[[Image:jack-atlantis-go.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Jack gives Atlantis Expedition Team a "Go"]]
+|valign="top"|'''Season One''' - When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients&mdash;the originators of the Stargates&mdash;Stargate Command launches an investigation. A new team of explorers, headed by civilian Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travels to the distant Pegasus galaxy, where they discover an advanced but deserted city on the ocean floor, a group of nomadic humans...and a deadly enemy that feeds on human fear!
-|valign="top"|[[Image:elizabeth-atlantis.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Elizabeth leads her team through the stargate]]
-|}
-''From SciFi.com Official Episode Summary:''
-Several million years ago, in a beautiful alien city in Antarctica, a man and a woman in silver clothing&mdash;two of the Ancients who created the Stargates&mdash;look out a window sadly as the city rises out of the encroaching ice and flies away to the stars, leaving behind only a small outpost.
+[[Stargate Atlantis: Season One|Episode Guides]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Stargate Atlantis: Season One Transcripts|Transcripts]]
+|-
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-s2.jpg|200px|left|]]
+|valign="top"|'''Season Two''' - After narrowly surviving a massive Wraith attack, the new inhabitants of Atlantis continue to uncover the secrets of the Ancients and search for allies in their corner of the universe, but the persistent threat of interference from vicious enemies haunts them in their pursuits. Will they find the elusive power source they so desperately need...or the renegade team member they've lost?
-Present day: At the Ancients' abandoned outpost (discovered in the episode, 7.22 "Lost City Part 2"), Dr. Elizabeth Weir, head of the Stargate Atlantis project, rides an elevator with Lt. Aiden Ford down a deep shaft bored in the ice. Reaching the research facility below, they find Dr. Rodney McKay and Dr. Carson Beckett arguing over the fact that Beckett is afraid to sit in the Ancient chair that controls the most powerful weapons known to humankind — even though he possesses (and is the one who discovered) the mutant gene to which Ancient technology automatically responds. As Weir points out, only a handful of people have the gene, and every time one of them sits in the chair they learn more about the Ancients.
+[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Two|Episode Guides]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Two Transcripts|Transcripts]]
+|-
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-s3.jpg|200px|left|]]
+|valign="top"|'''Season Three''' - As a new year in the Pegasus galaxy begins, a fleet of Wraith ships races to attack Earth. Can the team stop them in time, or do the Wraith have a new feeding ground? Will a technologically advanced people prove to be allies with the Atlantis Expedition, or will they be a powerful new threat?
-Dr. Daniel Jackson of Stargate Command then tells Weir and McKay of a remarkable discovery he's just made: The Stargate address to the Lost City of Atlantis is incomplete. On a white board he adds an eighth symbol&mdash;indicating that Atlantis is not on Earth nor even in their galaxy, but on a planet far, far away. And they can 'gate there.
+[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Three|Episode Guides]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Three Transcripts|Transcripts]]
+|-
-As Gen. Jack O'Neill races to the outpost in a helicopter flown by Maj. John Sheppard, McKay convinces Beckett to sit in the chair. It activates and launches an Ancient drone weapon that almost destroys the helicopter. But thanks to Sheppard's fancy flying and Beckett's new-found ability to turn off his control, the chopper lands safely.
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-s4.jpg|200px|left|]]
+|valign="top"|'''Season Four''' - Colonel Samantha Carter takes charge as the city's new leader, facing new and daunting challenges, including joining forces with the dangerous Wraith in order to fight a common enemy&mdash;the unstoppable Pegasus Replicators, the Asurans.
-At the outpost, Daniel tells O'Neill that the Ancients flew their entire city to a dwarf galaxy called Pegasus. In order for an expedition to 'gate that far, they need to boost the Stargate with the Earth's sole ZPM (Zero Point Module), an Ancient energy source currently powering the outpost's defenses and is vital to Earth's defense against an alien attack. The 'gating may totally drain the ZPM.
+[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Four|Episode Guides]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Four Transcripts|Transcripts]]
+|-
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-s5.jpg|200px|left|]]
+|valign="top"|'''Season Five''' - Richard Woolsey of the International Oversight Advisory (IOA) takes command of the Atlantis Expedition at a time when the Pegasus galaxy seemed at its safest in 10,000 years. But things have a way of changing rather quickly when those thought greatly weakened or long dead return.
-And even if it didn't, there wouldn't be enough power to 'gate back.
+[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Five|Episode Guides]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[Stargate Atlantis: Season Five Transcripts|Transcripts]]
-O'Neill says no. But Daniel convinces him that by visiting the Ancients' city they could find more ZPMs and who knows what else to protect Earth. The expedition's a go, though O'Neill insists Daniel is too valuable here on Earth to join them. Weir is in charge, with Colonel Marshall Sumner as her military commander. After some reluctance, Sheppard&mdash;who, it has been discovered, has the most potent variable of the Ancient gene&mdash;joins the offworld expedition along with McKay, Beckett, a military compliment and a full crew of the best and the brightest representing more than dozen countries.
-===1.15 "Before I Sleep"===
-{|
-|valign="top"|[[Image:alternate-weir.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Alternate Timeline Elizabeth Weir in stasis]]
-|valign="top"|[[Image:janus.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Janus, the Ancient builder of the timeship]]
-|valign="top"|[[Image:interior-janus-timeship.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Interior of Janus' timeship, showing time travel device]]
 |}
-''From SciFi.com Official Episode Summary:''
+==Movies==
-Although Dr. Weir has told no one that today is her birthday, Maj. John Sheppard has found out. He gives her a gift: a ceramic jar made by one of the Athosians. Then he, Lt. Ford and Teyla go off to explore more uncharted areas of Atlantis.
-The trio finds a lab with an Ancient stasis chamber. Incredibly, the chamber contains what appears to be a still-living, very old female Ancient. Later, Dr. Carson Beckett estimates the woman's physical age to be roughly 100 years. Technically, according to Dr. Rodney McKay, the woman is in a state of metabolic stasis&mdash;aging slowly but not entirely suspended. McKay calculates, based on the initial data he was able to access, that the woman has been in the stasis chamber for 10,000 years. Beckett worries that reviving her in her fragile state will kill her. Weir gives the order: Revive her.
-In the infirmary, Weir is stunned when the woman, emancipated from the stasis chamber, awakens and recognizes her, McKay, and the entire Atlantis team. Her next utterance is even more confounding: She says she is Dr. Elizabeth Weir.
-The elder Weir explains that she found a way to travel back in time, to when the Ancients lived in Atlantis. She has waited more than ten millennia in that stasis chamber for Team Atlantis to arrive.
-When the elder Weir is strong enough, she tells everyone how relieved she is to see the city back on the ocean surface. It didn't rise when she and Team Atlantis first arrived in her timeline, because the city had no fail-safe. In her original timeline, Team Atlantis' arrival seriously drained the city's energy reserves and the shield collapsed. Water crashed in, flooding every room in the city. Everyone drowned except Sheppard, Weir and Zelenka; the trio escaped in a modified Jumper. Sheppard's Ancient gene had allowed him to activate the ship; suddenly, they were in space, with many Wraith vessels firing at them. The next thing the elder Weir remembers is awakening back in Atlantis ... 10,000 years in the past.
-Janus, an Ancient scientist, told her that the Ancients had retrieved the Jumper from the ocean floor, and that she had been the only survivor of its crash. The ship was a time machine of Janus' design. He brought her before the Council, which was busy preparing to evacuate the city's occupants to Earth through the stargate. The Council, fearful of further time-tampering, denied Weir's request to return to her own time with a ZPM to prevent the shield from collapsing.
-Despite the Council's ruling, Janus devised a plan: He showed Weir the three ZPMs that simultaneously power the city. Used in sequence, they could sustain the power needed to maintain the shield for the time required. The catch: someone had to remain behind to rotate the power from one to the other over thousands of years. To that end, Janus programmed the stasis chamber to awaken Weir periodically during her 10,000-year slumber. He also entered the commands to commence her final revival at the moment that the city's sensors indicated the presence of Team Atlantis, and he programmed a fail-safe system that would raise the city to the surface if power levels dropped below a critical threshold. Then he and the other Alantians evacuated, leaving Weir alone to do her job&mdash;a job well-done, as it turned out.
-The younger Weir is sad that her older counterpart gave up her life. But the elder Weir feels that her adventure is just beginning, through her younger self. She tells Weir that the five stargate addresses on the note she had in her hand are to outposts&mdash;each one with a zero-point module: a gift from Janus. Then she passes away.
-Dr. Weir puts the ashes of her older self in the ceramic jar that Sheppard gave to her, then scatters them over the city. Her older self has given her the ultimate birthday present: a future.
-'''NOTE:''' The timeship introduced in this episode appears to be created using the same technology as the one SG-1 discovered on Harry Maybourne's planet in the episode, 8.13 "It's Good To Be King". Since Janus' timeship crashed 10,000 years ago in the Pegasus Galaxy and the timeship discovered in the Milky Way Galaxy was intact, it is possible that Janus created a new ship once he left Atlantis when the Ancients returned to Earth through the stargate 10,000 years ago.
-===1.17 "Letters From Pegasus"===
 {|
-|valign="top"|[[Image:letters-tracking-wraith.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Atlantis is tracking the approaching Wraith fleet]]
+|valign="top"|[[Image:sga-movies.jpg|200px|left|]]
-|valign="top"|[[Image:letters-elizabeth.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Elizabeth records a message]]
+|valign="top"|[[Atlantis Movies]] - Although the script for the first SGA movie was written (''Stargate: Extinction''), MGM discontinued the Stargate franchise before the movie could be produced. The news of the end of the franchise was announced by creator Brad Wright at the Vancouver Stargate Con on April 17, 2011. Script co-writer Joe Mallozzi said, "For what it's worth, it involved a return mission to Pegasus, the tragic end of one relationship, the beginning of another, and a surprising progression in the alliance between one man and one wraith."
-|valign="top"|[[Image:letters-received.jpg|thumb|170px|left|Carter at the SGC receives the transmission]]
 |}
-''From SciFi.com Official Episode Summary:''
-The situation at Atlantis is desperate. With three Wraith hive ships less than two weeks away, and with no way as yet to power up the city's force field, Dr. Weir, Dr. McKay, Maj. Sheppard, Lt. Ford and Teyla discuss their options.
-McKay is proud to announce that he might have one viable plan: While they don't have enough power to send a person home from the Pegasus Galaxy, McKay figures that if they patch in all of Atlantis' power-generation capability, they might be able to establish a wormhole long enough to send a message. He can get them 1.3 seconds&mdash;enough time for him to send a high-compression data burst that could carry mission reports from all the senior staff, plus invaluable data about Atlantis and the Pegasus Galaxy. Weir approves the plan: They must warn Earth about the Wraith.
-Meanwhile, Dr. Zelenka tracks the Wraith hive ships. They seem to go in and out of hyperspace periodically, to the point where he can approximate when and where they will do so again.
-Weir discovers that there is enough room in the transmission to include private messages from team members to their loved ones. She puts Lt. Ford in charge of videotaping the messages. Aside from her own personal message, Weir records her condolences to the families of the brave team-members who have lost their lives during this mission.
-On Earth, in the Cheyenne Mountain facility that is Stargate Command, there is unscheduled off-world activation. Lt. Col. Samantha Carter sees that it is a message ... from Atlantis.
-'''NOTE:''' Joseph Mallozzi, producer of ''Stargate SG-1'', said that where this episode fits into the ''Stargate SG-1'' timeline has been deliberately left vague. Season Eight of ''Stargate SG-1'' ended without any acknowledgement that this transmission was received. It is possible that it will be acknowledged in Season Nine.
-==Episodes==
-* [[7.22 "Lost City Part 2" Episode Guide|7.22 "Lost City Part 2"]]
-* [[8.13 "It's Good To Be King" Episode Guide|8.13 "It's Good To Be King"]]
 ==Related Characters==
-* [[Jack O'Neill|Brig. Gen. Jack O'Neill]]
-* [[Daniel Jackson|Dr. Daniel Jackson]]
-* [[Samantha Carter|Lt. Col. Samantha Carter]]
-* [[Ayiana]]
 * [[Carson Beckett|Dr. Carson Beckett]]
-* [[Janus]]
+* [[Steven Caldwell|Col. Steven Caldwell]]
+* [[Samantha Carter|Col. Samantha Carter]]
+* [[Ronon Dex]]
 * [[Teyla Emmagan]]
 * [[Aiden Ford|Lt. Aiden Ford]]
-* [[Harry Maybourne]]
+* [[Daniel Jackson|Dr. Daniel Jackson]]
+* [[Jennifer Keller|Dr. Jennifer Keller]]
 * [[Rodney McKay|Dr. Rodney McKay]]
-* [[John Sheppard|Maj. John Sheppard]]
+* [[John Sheppard|Maj./Lt. Col. John Sheppard]]
-* [[Marshall Sumner|Col. Marshall Sumner]]
 * [[Elizabeth Weir|Dr. Elizabeth Weir]]
-* [[Zelenka|Dr. Zelenka]]
+* [[Richard Woolsey]]
 ==Related Articles==
-===Keywords===
+* [[:Category:Aliens of the Pegasus Galaxy|Aliens of the Pegasus Galaxy]]
+* [[Atlantis]]
+* [[:Category:Stargate Atlantis Team|Atlantis Expedition]]
+* [[International Oversight Advisory (IOA)]]
-* [[Alternate Timelines]]
+==Production==
-* [[Ancients]]
-* [[Antarctic Outpost]]
-* [[Athosians]]
-* [[Lost City of the Ancients]]
-* [[Puddle Jumper]]
-* [[Stargate]]
-* [[Stargate Command (SGC)]]
-* [[Stargate Program Disclosure]]
-* [[Wraith]]
-* [[Zero Point Module (ZPM)]]
-===Other===
+'''Co-Creators/Executive Producers'''
+* [[Robert C. Cooper]]
+* [[Brad Wright]]
-* [[Joseph Mallozzi]]
+'''Writers and Directors'''
+* [[:Category:Writers#Stargate Atlantis|Writers]]
+* [[:Category:Directors#Stargate Atlantis|Directors]]
 ==Related Links==
+* [http://stargate.mgm.com/index.php?reset_series=2 MGM: Stargate Atlantis]
 * [http://www.scifi.com/atlantis/ SciFi.com Stargate Atlantis]
+* [http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/index.php?cat=9 Solutions Stargate Atlantis Spoiler and News Blog]
+* [http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/forum/index.php Solutions On-Site Forum]
+* [http://community.livejournal.com/sg1_solutions/ Solutions LiveJournal Companion]
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 --[[User:DeeKayP|DeeKayP]] 20:43, 28 Oct 2004 (PDT)

	Season One - When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients—the originators of the Stargates—Stargate Command launches an investigation. A new team of explorers, headed by civilian Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travels to the distant Pegasus galaxy, where they discover an advanced but deserted city on the ocean floor, a group of nomadic humans...and a deadly enemy that feeds on human fear! Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Two - After narrowly surviving a massive Wraith attack, the new inhabitants of Atlantis continue to uncover the secrets of the Ancients and search for allies in their corner of the universe, but the persistent threat of interference from vicious enemies haunts them in their pursuits. Will they find the elusive power source they so desperately need...or the renegade team member they've lost? Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Three - As a new year in the Pegasus galaxy begins, a fleet of Wraith ships races to attack Earth. Can the team stop them in time, or do the Wraith have a new feeding ground? Will a technologically advanced people prove to be allies with the Atlantis Expedition, or will they be a powerful new threat? Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Four - Colonel Samantha Carter takes charge as the city's new leader, facing new and daunting challenges, including joining forces with the dangerous Wraith in order to fight a common enemy—the unstoppable Pegasus Replicators, the Asurans. Episode Guides \| Transcripts
	Season Five - Richard Woolsey of the International Oversight Advisory (IOA) takes command of the Atlantis Expedition at a time when the Pegasus galaxy seemed at its safest in 10,000 years. But things have a way of changing rather quickly when those thought greatly weakened or long dead return. Episode Guides \| Transcripts

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